Zerbrowski said, "Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no try." It took me a second to realize that he had… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Great progress was made when arbitration treaties were concluded in which the contracting powers pledge in advance to submit all conflicts to… — Ludwig Quidde Copy Share Image
“That's right,' Mel said. 'Some vassal would come along and spear the bastard in the name of love. Or whatever the fuck… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
I got to college in '99, and I went to study literature and writing, and so within a couple years we had… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
In short, absolute, so-called mathematical, factors never find a firm basis in military calculations. From the very start, there is an interplay… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
First of all, we have to say loud and clear to all those who are engaged in the fighting that attention to… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
The United States spends over $87 billion conducting a war in Iraq while the United Nations estimates that for less than half… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war.… — Sonny Vaccaro Copy Share Image
The social and political climate came from discussions about how we could find conflict in the wake of a 100-year-long war ending.… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“When the tumult of war shall cease, and the tempest of present passions be succeeded by calm reflection, or when those, who,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
I would rather have this life of combat than the moral calm and mournful stupor of these last years. God give me… — Romain Rolland Copy Share Image
We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
“The thing people don't understand about an army is its great, unpunctuated wastes of inaction: you have to scavenge for food, you… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“She sent me a sunny smile, and what a smile, George; it was a smile that could have melted the whole world,… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense, More bodies are consumed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He held up a finger and went to the hallway, where he tripped over Blotchy, and then over the two monster cats… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
“If you're hoping for salvation or whatever, it has very little merit in it. I was referring to the final battle on… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
Our world faces many grave challenges: Widening conflicts and inequality. Extreme weather and deadly intolerance. Security threats - including nuclear weapons. We… — Antonio Guterres Copy Share Image
“Humans have precious few instincts, but that's because we don't listen to them. We let logic and knowledge get in the way.… — Elizabeth Norris Copy Share Image
My goal is to maintain the international norm on banning chemical weapons. I want that enforcement to be real. I want it… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“American socialism had lost momentum even before the war. (Socialist leader Norman Thomas received 885,000 votes in his 1932 run for the… — Benjamin Balint Copy Share Image
“Bumped uglies?” I repeated on a laugh. “You are a retired phone sex operator and the best you can come up with… — Jessica Gadziala Copy Share Image
“There is a very simple relationship between increased socioeconomic rifts in the society and increased violence, criminality, war, increased lack of trust… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The lessons Noam Chomsky sets out to teach us in 'Toward a New Cold War' are invaluable. The United States, like any… — Antony Blinken Copy Share Image
Love is so priceless that if it demands that you pay for it by blood; you cant afford to refute the demand.… — ROSANA CHRISTOPHER Copy Share Image
And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“This isn't an army marching on the Mists. This isn't a case you have to solve. It's just a bunch of nobles… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Kalau saya mengatakan tadi ada pertautan antara politic, war, and diplomacy, Saudara pasti pernah mendengar bahwa war is a continuation of politic… — SBYudhoyono Copy Share Image
Gardening is always more or less a warfare against nature. It is true we go over to the 'other side' for a… — Shirley Hibberd Copy Share Image
Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
“Akasha, for two thousand years I have watched,' he said. 'Call me the Roman in the Arena if you will and tell… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
During bomb drills, we students were told to crouch under our desks. Apparently the desks used in classrooms in the fifties were… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It's very clear that there are greater threats to these ships since, arguably, World War II. There are new technologies that can… — P. W. Singer Copy Share Image
“He spent two years in the extermination camp at Auschwitz. According to his own reluctant account, he came this close to going… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
